Example sentences of "made [pers pn] sound " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 2 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 3 | The other guests will just be two of my colleagues and their wives , to whom I owe hospitality ’ — the way he said it made them sound utterly negligible , almost beneath contempt . |
| 4 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 5 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 6 | When it was over , she walked across to the television , switched it off , turned to look at Charlotte and said : ‘ They made me sound like an unfeeling bitch . ’ |
| 7 | I must say he made you sound very interesting . ’ |
| 8 | He made you sound worried and puzzled and angry all at the same time , and that was right for what was happening . |
| 9 | You are as tough as Miss Lockwood made you sound . |
| 10 | His voice , he noticed , made him sound frightened . |
| 11 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 12 | Well you made him sound really , really boring . |
| 13 | Victoria said , ‘ And why he asked me not to call him uncle in front of you because it made him sound old ! ’ |
| 14 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 15 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 16 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 17 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 18 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 19 | I had decided against Ecuador : people I had spoken to made it sound cosy , like Switzerland , and there was no easy way from it to Brazil . |
| 20 | He made it sound like a fortune , this extra $1.25 , it was only because he liked Jed so much , he did n't know what had come over him , maybe he had a fever , an extra $1.25 , it was madness . |
| 21 | he made it sound as if this was a perfectly sound reason for his dangerous and criminal behaviour . |
| 22 | Crowing over it to Theo he made it sound like a breakthrough . |
| 23 | She made it sound as if I was having a baby . |
| 24 | He made it sound quite an ordinary request and I did n't like to ask why . |
| 25 | ‘ But you made it sound like more than two ordeals . ’ |
| 26 | Having decided for themselves that the problem lay in the lack of will and determination on the part of the Indo-Chinese to join whole-heartedly with the French in resisting communism , the US had to obtain assurances from the French that a programme of French government will be developed ; national armies will be organized ; France will despatch sufficient additional armed forces to Indo-China to insure that the restoration of peace and internal security will be accomplished in accordance with the timetable of the overall military plan for Indo-China ( which made it sound more like a military parade than a war and that the French will eliminate their policy of colonialism . |
| 27 | I suppose that made it sound more businesslike . |
| 28 | The darkening river made it sound hollow . |
| 29 | She made it sound so complicated . |
| 30 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |